[mythtv-users] MythMusic is working

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 30 May 2003 09:00 am, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> No reason except that no one has written a WMA decoder for MythMusic, and I
> don't know if there's an open source WMA decoding library, other than
> whatever is built into mplayer.  You can't just "use the same codecs" that
> mplayer uses; it's not a development library/toolkit like libmp3lame,
> libogg or libvorbis, so you can't link to it.  You'd have to actually lift
> parts of the mplayer codebase & bring it into the Myth tree, which is
> always a hassle as it has to then be periodically re-synched from the main
> mplayer source tree.
>
> Not saying it's impossible, just a PITA.

Should be quite easy to tie into the decoder that's in libavcodec, actually.

Isaac